Writer and Publisher - Oregon Review Books
Alan L. Contreras
Now Available!
The Other Side of the Fire
New Poems
Twenty-eight new poems by Oregon poet and naturalist Alan Contreras. Themes include the outdoor world, the gay experience, fantasias on water, birth, mountains and the end of life, including a memorial poem and several about human transitions.
Queen's Ambit:
Poems from the Gay Experience
Thirty-four poems related to the gay experience selected from the author's four previous collections, including eight new poems. Themes include love and loss, the AIDS years, music, humor and other aspects of the poet's experiences from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Far Afield
Stories of the author's birding adventures in the U.S., England and Australia from 1988-2024. Includes travel for birding in California, Texas, Florida, Vermont, Missouri, and Colorado, plus adventures in Queensland, Australia and England.
News
9/3/2021 - New blog post!
THE TRANSPACIFIC POETRY OF ERNEST G. MOLL
One of the most unusual national poetic awards received by a Northwestern American poet was won by University of Oregon professor Ernest G. Moll for his collection Cut From Mulga. There are several reasons why Moll’s prize and his poetry are little remarked today. First...
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1/29/2018 - New blog post!
THE INCOMPARABLE FLIGHT OF URSULA KROEBER LE GUIN
I had known the late Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) for about twenty years before I had the pleasure of visiting her at home. We met at an author’s event in Portland in the 1990s...
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1/22/2018 - An OSU Press Interview!
The Process of Publishing: An Interview with Alan Contreras
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Alan Contreras, author of Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West, co-editor of Birds of Oregon, proofreader for the OSU Press, and private press owner, discusses the process of writing and publishing books.
"Engaging and well written"
- Grant McCreary on Afield
"Alan Contreras is one of the deans of Oregon birding"
- Corey Finger of 10,000 Birds
"His writing style is impeccable and also sane. He is deeply informed and independent..."
- Prof. J. W. Powell on College and State: Resources and Philosophies
